I thought making a Fifa world cup forum thread too keep up with all the results of the world cup...

So to start it off the first game is on

Thursday 12th June:

Brazil vs Croatia

Who are your supporting and Who do you think is going to win this time?

I support England of course but i have a strong feeling Netherlands will do very well this time... However Spain will do there *fake fall over and give me a free kick tactics* they really got hammered for that in the last world cup....

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I am both looking forward to and dreading the world cup. The company I work for is partially involved in it and we've just done a major infrastructure move to support this and other sports. When it all kicks off on Thursday there is a production change freeze in place which means that we can't touch anything for a month and that is nice!

They have a tough group too fight, all top ranking teams... so will be interesting if they beat all of them then England have a good chance too go all the way... if they come 2nd then I'd say semi finals... 3rd or 4th and there out lol

Can't say I am supporting anyone this time as Scotland haven't been involved in a World Cup for quite some time sadly. :-(

'Fraid to say I will be cheering on Germany although I do have friends in Spain so hope they do well too.

Unlike many of my fellow countrymen though, I do wish England well. It's time for Rooney to show if he really is a world class player or not.

When he is on form he is world class but half the time he hasn't got his head on due to personal life issues... hopefully he is fine this time around...

I have to be honest, I have never thought he was world class. He occasionally shows flashes of genius but they are too few and far between to put him alongside the likes of Messi, Ronaldo, etc.

Messi is a good player defantly but Ronaldo﻿? ughh.... he spends more time on the floor crying like a baby girl then he does kicking the ball... seen the tantrums he has when he gets out played? ha! funny to watch... in fact we played a drinking game on how many times his team fell over... we got pretty drunk that game...

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It is unlikely that a European team will win. History shows that they don't succeed in South America. That makes it difficult for me to see beyond Argentina. I don't know about Brazil, they don't look as strong as they often are, but with home support they might do well. Of course that home support could turn sour with riots over the costs of staging the tournament. If Brazil are knocked out early, there could be considerable civil unrest.

Interesting to see that more major sponsors are now questioning the Qatar decision. I think FIFA are in trouble now and will have to bend to pressure and re-run the selection vote eventually.

I don't get the hype about Argentina, they have some decent players and Messi who never seems to step up at international level and he's not had the best of campaigns (for his standards). Can see them making quarters but not any further for me.

I reckon a Brazil Germany final then two of Belgium, Spain and Portugal to get knocked out in Semis

England have been doing practice exercises in Brazilian heat so hopefully they have climatized enough to preform better then other teams...

﻿I think that for professional footballers there is no difference about the climate or weather. Lot of European championships had a time, when teams had to play when snowing or when 30 degrees celsius﻿